Thoughtful content

Your premise is the specific, defensible purpose for a project or your overall platform, pulled from your personal vision for your audience . Most work is too generic to resonate, too forgettable to become anyone’s favorite. But by developing our premise — and forcing ourselves to test just how differentiated it truly feels to others — we stand a g... See more

Many of us are wired to look at work as something that should produce monetary rewards. Or at least with writing, some amount of attention, or new followers. But on the internet, sustained attention may take years to materialize, if at all. And too many people are focused on short-term followers instead of the genuine credibility that can come from... See more

we have to compete with the biggest and the best in each category of content we produce. But no, we don't need to BE them to compete with them. In fact, I'd posit there is no objective or academic way to declare something like a newsletter or a podcast or an expert or a brand as "the best." Everyone is making subjective, emotional decisions, then r... See more

Content design is the work of meeting a human’s need for information in the best way for that person to consume it.

If you find yourself angrily or excitedly replying in paragraphs to someone else’s writing or creations, you should stop and ask yourself, “Is this my curiosity demanding to be unleashed?”

As we think about a title for episode one, we ask them to imagine the title for episode ten of the third series. We then ask them to imagine, or write down, all the episode titles in between. This serves two purposes: it helps them develop a title format and aids in visualising their content as an archive, which it will become if they fully commit ... See more

To find a topic that is right for you:

1. Follow your energy . What topics give you energy to think about, write about, and talk about? What saps you of energy? Spend more on the former and less on the latter. This one trick will tell you a lot.


2. Make sure it’s based on your real-life experience. You need to know what you’re talking about. People can t

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